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...renewables, with total power sector emissions falling 3 per cent in the first half of 2025. China’s massive clean-tech deployment has brought huge cost reductions and performance improvements. Solar P...

29 Sep 2025

Shenzhen, a city of nearly 18 million people bordering Hong Kong, is known for pioneering China’s economic reforms 40 years ago. Now, it is taking carbon mitigation measures ahead of others and acts a...

4 Jun 2025

The 29th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29), held last week in Baku, was heralded as a pivotal moment for global climate finance. Instead, it left many deeply disappointed. For develo...

27 Dec 2024

UN-convened panel to address equity, sustainability and human rights across value chains of critical energy transition minerals

...renewables is a world hungry for critical minerals,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the launch of the Panel. “For developing countries, critical minerals are a criti...

4 May 2024

The report, by thinktank Ember, finds that, in the decade to 2020, central government-controlled power companies (central SOEs) had increased their wind and solar capacity nearly five-fold, surpassing...

12 Aug 2024

...renewables using a novel class of carbon credits, known as “transition credits”. But what about the ripple effects that the change might have on individuals and communities living near the plant, incl...

14 Aug 2024

Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled new climate targets under the country’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) on Wednesday, committing – for the first time – to cut the country’s ec...

25 Sep 2025

The 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as the Conference of Parties (COP30), started in Belém, Brazil, on November 10. The event will cont...

13 Nov 2025

...renewables by 2030. The Philippines ranked 37th out of 200 countries surveyed for total GHG emissions contribution, higher than Ukraine and Qatar. Source: Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Re...

27 May 2024

...renewables ambition to secure climate finance Developing countries that do not fall under the category of least developed country (LDC) or small island developing states (SIDS) will have to show more ...

11 Jun 2024

When Romina Khursheed Alam assumed office in April 2024, she was keenly aware of the legacy she was inheriting. Her predecessors had set the bar high, with senator Sherry Rehman making history at COP2...

12 Sep 2024

Commodity dependence runs deep, developing countries must add value to turn the tide

The world still has a long way to go in breaking commodity dependence, a situation where a country makes more than 60 per cent of its merchandise export earnings from commodities. Such good...

29 Jul 2025

Donald Trump's successful bid for a second term as US president is expected to have a major impact on climate action, both at home and abroad. Although gaining little attention on the campaign tra...

8 Nov 2024

Indonesia’s coal mining sector could be releasing huge volumes of planet-heating methane that the nation's top quarriers are neither tracking nor mitigating, according to a report by energy think tank...

29 Jul 2024

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Rempang Eco City, a large-scale development project in Indonesia’s western Riau Islands, has been touted by the provincial government as a “new economic engine for Indonesia”. It will comprise industr...

16 Oct 2025

Every year, environmental, social and governance (ESG) consultancy Syntao Green Finance and the China Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF) jointly releases a report on the top 10 trends in responsible i...

28 Jan 2025

Energy chief Raphael Lotilla has been selected by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr as the next secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the president's executi...

23 May 2025

Nearly a decade after the concept was first coined, the financial sector is taking a stab at developing a new methodology for reporting “avoided emissions”, also known as Scope 4 emissions. Up until 2...

11 Dec 2024

Philippine environment secretary Antonia Loyzaga at COP28

...renewables deployment and energy efficiency. Doing so will reduce approximately 990 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (mmtCO2e) cumulatively between 2020 and 2030, but this will still...

13 Sep 2024

Pakistan’s energy sector investments are on a complex trajectory. Despite government efforts to attract foreign capital and de-risk new projects, investor confidence remains low. In January 2024, a 60...

12 Mar 2025

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